Hi, I'm Mike, it's May 18th
Doc - about 20 27 degrees out here and it's snowing
We're expected to have 9 more inches of snow over the next three days here in Wyoming
But today after Wyoming life is gonna take you on the road
We recently had a chance to visit the great state of Indiana and I wasn't there goofing off
Although there was plenty of that going on
But we were out there doing what we love to do. And that's spreading the word of Agriculture on our
wyoming life
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Now a few years ago
If you would have told me that I would have been asked to go anywhere and be asked to tell anyone anything
Well anything that was rattling around up here in this old beena, I would have thought that you might be a little touched
But by doing what we've done over the last few years
Well, and actually you know what really thanks to you and your help both Erin and I have had the opportunity to
Go to some wonderful places and tell our story
Not only a story of YouTube or even how we ended up at the ranch
Let the story of agriculture and how its become a part of
every single day in our life
It's it's actually it's colder out there than looks and that snow is is darn right chilly after being used to some spring weather
Erin has done teaching
she's teach to stock classes about how and when to plant veggies how to
sell them and how to make the most out of the land that you have and and I love to go out and
meet and meet other farmers and ranchers and pick their brains find out what works for them and
And then spread their ideas as far as I can
the problem is that we've never done a video about going out and meeting other people we tend to just sneak away and
Sneak back home and like ninjas
Now we know that folks come to our wyoming life to see us here on the ranch to watch us do our thing
but just this once
we thought we'd take you along with us for a little bit show you how an appearance goes and
How much we love it and how they bring people together and hopefully make agriculture a community
It's just a little bit stronger for it
Now here it's the last couple of weeks of May
School four per our kids is out this week and it's snowing all of our projects are put on hold for a couple days
Aaron's not going to be out planting anything and and
Anything that I have to do beyond the usual chores can wait for a bit nicer day
The timing could be better but it's also a great time to get off the ranch and travel
1200 miles east to a whole different world
Arriving in the Hoosier State I didn't know what to expect but I did expect to meet some folks that I've never met before
I've been when is a camera goes around every woman except one
Their hair color is not natural. She dropped one
Before like you know, what spent blob
And the one that brought this ragtag crew together
Was the local AG teacher and FFA advisor Jen and her husband, Gabe
First so I emailed
but
We were already watching your channel in class. So every Friday my Acrobat agribusiness class watches you
My first task in Indiana was to address the year end FFA banquet for the South Knox chapter
I hate to admit that I didn't know as much about
FFA as I thought I did but I can say
That during the hour or so before I had a chance to get up and speak. I learned a lot
I learned how FFA takes kids not only down a road of agricultural education, but also a road that provides
leadership personal growth and
career success
FFA is a part of the school's agricultural science program and
They learn much more than just how to plant a crop
they learn about how food fiber and natural resources are all parts of agriculture and
How those industries can make a positive impact on our quality of life?
As I spoke in front of students parents grandparents and community members
I couldn't help but look out and see what we're all working for. Not the future
But what will become the future of agriculture and where our food will come from of course by that time?
I'll probably be food that spends more time in a blender than in my mouth
But when it was all through and I done with my schpeel
telling the kids and families how important agriculture is and how
We have made a mission of taking agriculture to the masses
In fact, nothing that they haven't heard before by the way
I was able to spend some time with the kids and learn what makes them tick
first stop was a potato farm where we met with Josh and Dylan who took us through the equipment and
The work they do
How many people do you think it takes to take a potato from a seed potato
All the way to a potato you all know. Let's just say just to get it off the farm
I hit 15 or 20 people to grow it
Take care of it just to make sure
That I have one single potato chip
We also had a chance to visit a local large melon farm where
Watermelons and cantaloupes are just now headed out to the field to be planted
Greenhouses full of seedlings that will eventually be harvested and sent all over the nation to grace our fourth of July picnics
On what how do I pick a watermelon? What am I looking for?
besides green obviously belly
The belly is that that's the that's what makes a different yellow belly if it ain't yellow
It's not completely right but thumping you're listening for this solid sound
Okay, it sounds like a beach ball or something and the heart which doesn't mean necessarily
I didn't get to eat because some of the better loans have a hole of hard
depends on how big so you're saying, there's no science to picking out a watermelon pretty well if I mean you
Want a nice one a good looking melon
You thought but mm-hmm. You want a good sweet. Melon. Sometimes it may be a little Hollow
Along with that we also had a chance to check out one of the FFA students projects in rabbitry
My name is Caitlin and this is my rapper named Elsa
And I'm gonna show you my SAE project which is pretty much a supervised agricultural experience and
Basically my wife in the summer
So me is actually a really good alternative to chicken
so it's higher in protein a higher and vitamins and higher and
Almost anything you can think so it's a healthier alternative the chicken and it has a lot less fat also
So that's why a lot of people might use it for salads or something instead of just press the chicken
What does what is where is it tape? Does it taste like chicken?
Yeah, it tastes exactly like chicken really a lot of times when you're talking about production of animals
You you're talking about percentages, you might wait
Exactly. Yeah, that's got a lot of weight that kind of thing. So they're pretty efficient. Mm-hmm
So and the good thing about meat rabbits is that they reproduce quickly
Their gestation period super-quick and then they usually don't have problems having litters and we don't really have to help much
By the time we were done with farm tours
I can tell you that our entire crew was wore out but no visit off
The ranch is complete without a subscriber Meetup where anyone can come and just hang out
Including one little dude who might be my biggest fan
This little voice it was his name. See I'm blocked in and he was like
Yeah, it's Mikey from TV. I watched him every night before you go to bed
and he stood in front of them and he was just like oh
Everything they certainly chillers for 10 minutes
With a final trip out to Jenn and Gabe's place where I finally got my cow fix and Matt got to feed a horse
Yeah
It was from there that I wrapped up my time in Indiana and began the long trek hole
The best part about getting off the ranch occasionally is a chance to see something different to bring home new ideas and to help each
other and I know that some folks in Indiana couldn't even fathom having to carry 35 acres to support one cow and her calf and
Others wouldn't believe that there's snow falling in the latter half of May
The world is full of surprises and just like a guy that I sat down from across Rome in the airport
He said it to his fault. You're not gonna believe we just sat down across really well
Believe it because it might just be your town that we visit next
And just like that
We're gone
Thanks again for coming along with me as we get this snow behind us and we get we really need to get rolling we are
So far behind we have some great things coming up new farm store will be opening soon along with the air B&B across the road
before you know it it's gonna be time for branding and then we have hanging as
Summer sometime hits the ranch
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until next time have a great week and thanks for joining us in our
Wyoming life
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